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there is he. >> well, get me off, get charlie on. there we go. >> i ask a couple of people this already i think, president owe vans, that was when we saw the size and the magnitude of the latest moves, qe moves, a lot of people thought that things must be a lot worse than what we were led to believe and we thought we'd see some numbers that would make that apparent. we haven't seen numbers that are making that apparent, and i guess if you consider that it's a dual mandate, as long as we're above 8%, anything is justified. is that the thinking of the fed at this point, and i guess if inflation's low you can satisfy that mandate as well. you could even say that inflation's below our target so you're satisfying both mandates, but was that the thinking, there was really nothing worse than the rest of us thought in the economy when you decided to do this? >> well, that's a good question. i think that it's evident the data softened during the summer and this ends up being the third summer that we've seen the data soften from a first year,
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. >> the way that charlie sheen is riveting. >> it was unbelievable. why not? let's throw it out there. >> stay in your own zone. don't channel jennifer granholm here? >> you don't think that'd be attractive. >> what does extreme mika look like. >> i could do the tease as granholm. what do you think? >> do some extreme mika. >> some extreme mika. i'd need some vodka. you don't want that, trust me. it's usually based on anger and you usually have done something wrong. willie, what's that like? >> there's some screaming, there's some intensity in the eyes. >> yeah. >> there's some veins through here. >> yeah? >> yeah. >> so it is kind of granholm-ish. >> in a negative way. >> it's never a good day when mommy's not happy. up next, eugene robinson and chuck todd. we'll be right back. "ever ask somebody to lend you a foot?" "who thinks about stuff like that?" "vince mahe grew up on two continents... and noticed that wherever you go, people have their hands full, but their feet free." "the result? a liftgate you operate with your foot." "code name?" "open sesame" "th
. >> the way that charlie sheen is riveting. >> it was unbelievable. why not? let's throw it out there. >> stay in your own zone. don't channel jennifer granholm here? >> you don't think that'd be attractive. >> what does extreme mika look like. >> i could do the tease as granholm. what do you think? >> do some extreme mika. >> some extreme mika. i'd need some vodka. you don't want that, trust me. it's usually based on anger and you usually have...
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melissa: charlie gasparino, thank you so much. lori: numbers from the retailers are rolling in today. next, we will take a look at some of the winners and losers. find out why some of the retailers are betting big on melissa's pick. melissa: take a look at some of today's winners and losers on the s&p 500. netflix trading higher. look at that stop. jumping higher again today. 6.5%. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ melissa: time now for stocks as we do every 15 minutes. let's head to the floor of the new york stock exchange. nicole: shop until you drop. we are taking a look at some of the retailers. reports back-to-school is better for some retailers. some other consumers are tightening their wallets into the big holiday shopping season. i want to take a look at the names that beat the street. the gaps, tj maxx, limited brands. we should note that the gap really surprising everyone and surpassing expectations posting a 6% increase in same-store sales. the stocks is that hides that we have not seen since 2000. some of the methods incl
melissa: charlie gasparino, thank you so much. lori: numbers from the retailers are rolling in today. next, we will take a look at some of the winners and losers. find out why some of the retailers are betting big on melissa's pick. melissa: take a look at some of today's winners and losers on the s&p 500. netflix trading higher. look at that stop. jumping higher again today. 6.5%. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ melissa: time now for stocks as we do every 15 minutes. let's head to the floor...
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governor charlie crist will join me next. >>> plus, the united states relationship in the middle east are being tested. we have reporters on the ground across the region. >>> but first a look ahead at the schedule of president obama and mitt romney. president obama in las vegas. don't be surprised if you see him. he has no public events but bet we see him go get a hamburger or something and mitt romney has rally tonight when he gets to denver. that's where we're going to be tonight. you're watch dnd only on nbc. overmany discounts to thine customers! [old english accent] safe driver, multi-car, paid in full -- a most fulsome bounty indeed, lord jamie. thou cometh and we thy saveth! what are you doing? we doth offer so many discounts, we have some to spare. oh, you have any of those homeowners discounts? here we go. thank you. he took my shield, my lady. these are troubling times in the kingdom. more discounts than we knoweth what to do with. now that's progressive. >>> the florida republican party has filed around election complaint against a firm that the republican national committe
governor charlie crist will join me next. >>> plus, the united states relationship in the middle east are being tested. we have reporters on the ground across the region. >>> but first a look ahead at the schedule of president obama and mitt romney. president obama in las vegas. don't be surprised if you see him. he has no public events but bet we see him go get a hamburger or something and mitt romney has rally tonight when he gets to denver. that's where we're going to be...
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charlie? >>> thank you. >>> in libya the state department is pulling more staffers out of the american embassy for security reasons. secretary of defense leon panetta said thursday that they carried out the attack that killed the ambassador to libya and three other americans. >> the reason i think pretty clearly it was a terrorist attack is because a group of terrorists obviously conducted that attack on the consulate. and against our individuals. what terrorists were involved i think still remains to be determined by the investigation. but it clearly was a group of terrorists who conducted that attack against that facility. >> senior correspondent john miller, former assistant director of national intelligence joins us. what's going on? why can't the fbi get in there and do what they were sent there to do? >> the security situation on the ground there is so brittle that the libyan government is very reluctant to have a team of a couple of dozen fbi people go into benghazi when the only people
charlie? >>> thank you. >>> in libya the state department is pulling more staffers out of the american embassy for security reasons. secretary of defense leon panetta said thursday that they carried out the attack that killed the ambassador to libya and three other americans. >> the reason i think pretty clearly it was a terrorist attack is because a group of terrorists obviously conducted that attack on the consulate. and against our individuals. what terrorists were...
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i talked to charlie evans this morning. he was one of the advocates of what we're calling the q.e. infinity program, the idea of keeping your foot on the accelerator, the central bank keeping its foot on the accelerator as long as employment remained above 7%. just a little background, the fed did not go with evans' specific proposal but did create an open-ended quantitative easing. so i asked him, how open-ended is it? what happens at the end of this year when operation twist ends? what happens to additions to the balance sheet? here's what he said. >> i frankly think it's going to take almost a year in order to see the type of improvement in labor markets that i'm expecting, just getting through the first half of next year with the headwinds that we're facing. i think that it's probably later in 2013 that we would get there. so in my opinion, we'd continue with those asset purchases until we see payroll employment more like 200,000, 250,000. >> continue at $85 billion into all of 2013? >> this is my recommendation. >> it's important to parse it just a little bit. remember that pa
i talked to charlie evans this morning. he was one of the advocates of what we're calling the q.e. infinity program, the idea of keeping your foot on the accelerator, the central bank keeping its foot on the accelerator as long as employment remained above 7%. just a little background, the fed did not go with evans' specific proposal but did create an open-ended quantitative easing. so i asked him, how open-ended is it? what happens at the end of this year when operation twist ends? what...
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to ben stein, gerri willis and ben stein and charlie gasperino. >> people have to figure 0 this out. 90% of american households here are going to find some kind of new tax and that means 500 billion dollars is going to be raised. 120 million households are going to be impacted not just the expiration of the bush tax cuts, there are now obamacare taxes going into place and it's going to kill investments and taxes on dividends go up 20%, long-term capital gains taxes go up 7%, i'm telling you if ne don't work on this, the whole economy is going to come skidding to a halt. >> and ben, the irony of course the debates focused on the economy and this seems like question he number one. >> i'm floored, charles, i'm glad you brought it up. the sequester is probably as bad an idea as ever come out of congress and the white house. the idea to me in particular, of cutting the defense budget, 5% of the budget, equally, roughly 5% of gdp, very, very roughly, more like 4%. >> right. >> ehe quali with domestic spending is just insanity, it's suicide. if mr. osama bin laden were still alive, he would
to ben stein, gerri willis and ben stein and charlie gasperino. >> people have to figure 0 this out. 90% of american households here are going to find some kind of new tax and that means 500 billion dollars is going to be raised. 120 million households are going to be impacted not just the expiration of the bush tax cuts, there are now obamacare taxes going into place and it's going to kill investments and taxes on dividends go up 20%, long-term capital gains taxes go up 7%, i'm telling...
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john thain taking our own, talking to him about his plans for cit and you know, charlie. now, you're coming out here because you've opinion reporting all day about -- >> and yesterday. melissa: about john thain out there shopping cit i understand another network which shall remain nameless. >> i call them brand x. melissa: was refuting your story? >> he tried to refute it on brand x. what, listen, when john thain was actually a major player on wall street, cit is not a major player i used to take glee when he refuted my old stories because he mattered at new york stock exchange and merrill he tried to refute all sorts of stuff. they need to raise capital at merrill. he would say they don't and they would raise capital. i would say he is on the ropes with ken louis he will not replace him after the bank of america brought merrill lynch. he got replaced. as a matter of fact john thain knew he was going to be replaced he saw me, he saw me on tv announce it. has history of this. today i think he was pretty squirrely. like he said not player he once was. i want to address coup
john thain taking our own, talking to him about his plans for cit and you know, charlie. now, you're coming out here because you've opinion reporting all day about -- >> and yesterday. melissa: about john thain out there shopping cit i understand another network which shall remain nameless. >> i call them brand x. melissa: was refuting your story? >> he tried to refute it on brand x. what, listen, when john thain was actually a major player on wall street, cit is not a major...
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>> i'm not sure how you judge that, charlie. i think it's up to the candidates to make it a good or bad debate and i think romney did a pretty good job and obama did a very poor job. show i guess that makes it a wash. i'm not sure about mike murphy's point about it being a reset though i suspect he's right. but i would pick up on josh tyrangiel's point about the kerry analogy. absolutely right, i think it's a striking analogy but guess what, john kerry lost by the same amount he was trailing before that debate. so that gets to the question whether debates really have, whether they really matter that much. and i went back and looked at every debate and every poll before and after since 1960, and the only candidate who gained substantially from debates, jerry ford who blew the biggest debate night of his career. so i'm skeptical, particularly with a rather small group of persuadeables, even though mike murphy may be right i'm skeptical this is really going to change the playing field a lot. >> rose: mike murphy, how would you conv
>> i'm not sure how you judge that, charlie. i think it's up to the candidates to make it a good or bad debate and i think romney did a pretty good job and obama did a very poor job. show i guess that makes it a wash. i'm not sure about mike murphy's point about it being a reset though i suspect he's right. but i would pick up on josh tyrangiel's point about the kerry analogy. absolutely right, i think it's a striking analogy but guess what, john kerry lost by the same amount he was...
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mohamed morsi gave the in a series of interviews recently with the new york times and then a gun again on charlie rose kind of explaining to the american audience what he how he viewed democratic egypt and more broadly i'm up how democracy could be adopted in north africa in the middle east in general and i think he was pretty clear and pretty articulate on the subject you know that culture is very the role of religion in politics varies across the world and. you know there's not a western or one size fits all model for what democracy can look like in and at least in egypt they seem to be charting or at least beginning to chart their own way and mixing islam and democracy and trying to come up with a you know an approach to democracy that has actual cultural roots and i think that at least. you know an articulate view of mohamed morsi was quite articulate in the new york times on that subject you know what do you think about what's the role of islam and democracy and you know a tandem can they work together because western media a lot of pundits are very skeptical. they've been spectacle skeptica
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i love it. >> reporter: as many long time washingtonians can tell you, charlie was the public address announcer at griffiths stadium from 1956 to 1971 during which time the senators lost, a lot more than they won which is why the nationals' winning wave has been a real thrill for charlie. >> it's bringing the city closer together. it's really exciting! >> reporter: though he's not officially associated with the nationals, charlie likes to consider himself the team's unofficial ambassador. >> i always wanted to be an ambassador. >> reporter: he's friendly with the team's owners and goes to about 20 games a year. in fact, he's planning on being at the game tonight against the phillies when the nats hope to clinch the division. >> everybody loves to associate, be associated with a winner. >> reporter: what's more, charlie has been asked to be the honorary public address announcer for the team's first playoff game. >> let's play ball. >> reporter: when asked if he ever thought a washington squad would be the best team in baseball, charlie answered with his typical honesty and enthusiasm.
i love it. >> reporter: as many long time washingtonians can tell you, charlie was the public address announcer at griffiths stadium from 1956 to 1971 during which time the senators lost, a lot more than they won which is why the nationals' winning wave has been a real thrill for charlie. >> it's bringing the city closer together. it's really exciting! >> reporter: though he's not officially associated with the nationals, charlie likes to consider himself the team's unofficial...
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please welcome charlie cook. [applause] >> i was just, boy, if i could walk on water, it must be pretty thick ice. [laughter] anyway, thank you all for coming. there was just too much -- i was thinking, if i'm one of the most respected, boy, that's a low bar in this tournament. [laughter] anyway, thank you very much. and gregg and i have been friend for, i don't know, somewhere over 25 years, probably close to 30, and this relationship with united technologies has been great. boy, this room, i mean, we've got a -- you know, you guys are in prince william county, and they're in prince georges county. [laughter] kind of look at the span. but anyway, thank you all for coming out. and, um, this is just a quick reaction because i want to get, i want to get to glen and fred because they are just two of the very, very best pollsters on this. their firms are sort of both kind of the nordstroms on their respected sides of the aisle, you know, just very, very large and enormously high quality and incredibly well regarded a
please welcome charlie cook. [applause] >> i was just, boy, if i could walk on water, it must be pretty thick ice. [laughter] anyway, thank you all for coming. there was just too much -- i was thinking, if i'm one of the most respected, boy, that's a low bar in this tournament. [laughter] anyway, thank you very much. and gregg and i have been friend for, i don't know, somewhere over 25 years, probably close to 30, and this relationship with united technologies has been great. boy, this...
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i watched "charlie rose" at 1:00, 2:00 in the morning. the second major concern i had was when romney said -- i am going to say "governor romney," in that we should respect president obama and governor romney, their positions -- his statement that we will keep our military strong. we have an excess of military contractors. we have massive abuse of military machine that could use a thinning out, and a little bit more accountability. i think if we curtailed some of that and put that towards education and infrastructure -- governor romney says we are going to build a 12 million jobs. what are you going to do? are they just going to come about? >> are you voting for governor romney? >> no, i am not. i'm voting for president obama again. >> charlottesville. go ahead with your comments. >> yes -- >> charlottesville, make sure you mute your television and then go ahead with your comments by otherwise there is a feedback. charlottesville, are you there? >> yeah, i am there. i am an independent voter. i moved to this country five years ago. i was
i watched "charlie rose" at 1:00, 2:00 in the morning. the second major concern i had was when romney said -- i am going to say "governor romney," in that we should respect president obama and governor romney, their positions -- his statement that we will keep our military strong. we have an excess of military contractors. we have massive abuse of military machine that could use a thinning out, and a little bit more accountability. i think if we curtailed some of that and...
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charlie: thank you. melissa: how important is it for large companies to give back to the people they serve? lori: they transfer money all around the world. we really have a front row seat. in the meantime, here are some of today's winners and losers on the s&p 500. netflix up 8% today. back with more after this. ♪ ♪ lori: it is time for stocks now as we do every 15 minutes. but head to the floor of the new york stock exchange. nicole petallides is standing by. nicole: the number one loser on the dow jones industrial. so many folks hold hewlett-packard in their holdings and some way whether it is a mutual fund or an individual tech fund. it is getting hit hard today. talking about a very challenging environment. giving an outlook that was somewhat of a cautious one. we are think that down 8.6%. that is a huge move. almost at a ten year low. i also want to take a look and flipped the arrow around. that is for netflix. it has been a top performer for the s&p 500. number one spot right now. citigroup rei
charlie: thank you. melissa: how important is it for large companies to give back to the people they serve? lori: they transfer money all around the world. we really have a front row seat. in the meantime, here are some of today's winners and losers on the s&p 500. netflix up 8% today. back with more after this. ♪ ♪ lori: it is time for stocks now as we do every 15 minutes. but head to the floor of the new york stock exchange. nicole petallides is standing by. nicole: the number one...
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funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: we begin this evening with polics, governor romney was the clear winner last night in the first of the three presidential debates, his performance revived a campaign dogged by weakening poll numbers a candidate emerged that republicans hoped for, friends often describe but the electorate had yet to encounter. >> that was survey done of small businesses across the country, said what has been the effect of obama care on your hiring plans and three quarters of them said it makes us less likely to hire people. i just don't know how the president could come into office, facing 23 million people out of work, rising unemployment and economic crisis at the kitchen table and spend his energy and passion for two years fihting for obama care instead of fighting for jobs for the american people. >> i have my own plans, not the same as simpson-bowles but in my v
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charlie who are you pulling for? >> i have no idea. 50 years ago today the beatles released their first single in britain. "love me do" was the talk of a music revolution. beatles had more hits than any ban in history. the beatles gave their last live performance in 1969. the next year they officially broke up. >> all things beatles. >> you do love the beatles. >> do i. should i get in >> two best friends in louisiana are accused of murder. police call it the thelma and louise case. their only connection is electronics. we'll have a preview for you this "this morning". so, when i shop -- i earn twice as much with double extrabucks rewards. that's two times the rewards! yeah, that's what double is. i know. i was agreeing with you. it's two times. act fast and sign up at cvs.com/doublebucks for double quarterly extrabucks rewards. don't miss getting double quarterly extrabucks rewards. i love 'em! bp has paid overthe people of bp twenty-threeitment to the gulf. billion dollars to help those affected and to cover cleanu
charlie who are you pulling for? >> i have no idea. 50 years ago today the beatles released their first single in britain. "love me do" was the talk of a music revolution. beatles had more hits than any ban in history. the beatles gave their last live performance in 1969. the next year they officially broke up. >> all things beatles. >> you do love the beatles. >> do i. should i get in >> two best friends in louisiana are accused of murder. police call it...
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it was something that charlie crist was in favor of. republicans became more-when they saw the obama campaign use it more successfully. the majority of african- americans were a majority of early voters in the state in 2008. it was important in the black community. cut back on early voting. another thing that rick scott did is he prevented ex-felons after their release from voting. they have to wait seven years and petitioned the governor to get their voting rights back. that instantaneously prevented 200,000 people who would otherwise have their voting rights from being able to cast a ballot in this election. some of those people were mailed voter registration cards under governor charlie crist and arnelle told they cannot vote. it is a very confusing situation there. that is another change were ex- felons in florida are more likely to be african-american, then they are to be white. it is another discriminatory voting change. the last thing florida did is they attempted to purge the voter rolls, the so-called non- citizen voters. if yo
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charlie gasparino is here with breaking news on this story. here's what is also money tonight. president obama and mitt romney getting ready to face off in the first presidential debate. one man who didn't get an invitation? libertarian presidential candidate, gary johnson of the he will join us here live. >>> plus an influential coal miners union says it won't endorse president obama's slamming the administration's war on coal. will ts be a deciding factor in the election? >>> houses of millionaires collecting unemployment checks? does that make sense to you? even when they say it's not it is always about money. melissa: so here's look at the day's market headlines. spain's prime minister denying speculation that a spanish bailout request is imminent. stocks pared early session gains following the news and the dow closed down 32 points on the day. >>> a mixed picture for u.s. auto sales in september. chrysler posted a strong 12% year-over-year gain. general motors saw a tepid 1.5% advance and ford sales were basically flat. >>> shares of metropcs skyrocketed nearly 18%. deutsc
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that's what charlie evans is saying, in effect, they are seeing into the future, they say, and improving the future, but before it can come to pass. d tt succeeding. >> i think 34 -- if you're going to measure a yardstick in another realm, it is 34.3, isn't it? >> no, it's 36. >> it's relativity. length contraction time -- >> that's part of the problem. that's part of the problem. >> you've heard of length contraction and time dilation, right? >> we should talk in simple terms, joe. >> not general relativity. but einstein made a fortune in physics. so you're saying that -- i mean at 8%, you're not feeling the pain of all these people that are out of work. and we've got no fiscal solutions, we've got a deadlocked congress, congress can't do anything, they're the only game in town. that's got to help. >> empathy is not the way forward. the way forward is to think through the problem. >> it is staggering that they think they need to make -- >> they have an atlas complex, which is not helping. >> they should be shrugging. >> it's hindering. >> ben bernanke sets up as the world's leading auth
that's what charlie evans is saying, in effect, they are seeing into the future, they say, and improving the future, but before it can come to pass. d tt succeeding. >> i think 34 -- if you're going to measure a yardstick in another realm, it is 34.3, isn't it? >> no, it's 36. >> it's relativity. length contraction time -- >> that's part of the problem. that's part of the problem. >> you've heard of length contraction and time dilation, right? >> we should...
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>>neil: charlie gasparino, thank you. >> in the meantime, for now, we are grateful that g.e. cap dallas and a.i.g. are not tanking just yet just as we are thankful the economic numbers are not soaring. the last few years that has been the drill: celebrateing today with spending numbers that remain not off the charts but they had us off the map. and a shrug to the latest g.d.p. news. it russia returning. but there is still a plus sign. steve moore has had enough. the best selling author says we should not be settling for recovery that is, a muddling. but we do, don't we? that is the dynamic. >>guest: i agree. one of the things that is disappointing about the election, i like the way that president obama ran four years ago when he ran on hope and change. now what he is running on is, this is the best we can do, america. we contrasted that, by the way, in our editorial this morning, with john f. kennedy in 1960 running against the eisenhower and nixon economy. at that time the economy was growing 2.5 to 3 percent and john f. kennedy famously said, we can do better. he minute by
>>neil: charlie gasparino, thank you. >> in the meantime, for now, we are grateful that g.e. cap dallas and a.i.g. are not tanking just yet just as we are thankful the economic numbers are not soaring. the last few years that has been the drill: celebrateing today with spending numbers that remain not off the charts but they had us off the map. and a shrug to the latest g.d.p. news. it russia returning. but there is still a plus sign. steve moore has had enough. the best selling...